From 35d03ed832cb7f3127794b218aac86fae93b8354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ezio Melotti Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:30:42 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] #14763: document default maxsplit value for str.split. --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index ad0b5521c3..cebe7528e8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1161,8 +1161,8 @@ string functions based on regular expressions. Return a list of the words in the string, using *sep* as the delimiter string. If *maxsplit* is given, at most *maxsplit* splits are done (thus, the list will have at most ``maxsplit+1`` elements). If *maxsplit* is not - specified, then there is no limit on the number of splits (all possible - splits are made). + specified or ``-1``, then there is no limit on the number of splits + (all possible splits are made). If *sep* is given, consecutive delimiters are not grouped together and are deemed to delimit empty strings (for example, ``'1,,2'.split(',')`` returns -- 2.40.0